Legal Hacking: Upcoming Events

Legal hacking is a movement.

Several legal hacking events — i.e., meetings at which developers engage in coding or other development activities leading to the creation of new legal technologies, or enter their new legal technologies in competitions — are scheduled for the coming weeks [if you know of others, please mention them in the comments]:

• April 15: Legal Hackathon at Brooklyn Law School Incubator & Policy (BLIP) Clinic, Brooklyn, New York, USA
• April 18: Georgetown Law Center Iron Tech Lawyer Competition, Washington, DC, USA
• May 12: lawTechCamp 2012: Legal Technology Unconference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• May 19: International Legislative Unhackathon, San Francisco, California, USA, and online
• July 6-7: Open Legislative Data in Paris: A Conference of the Third Kind with Hacktivists and Academics, Paris, France.
• January 20-21, 2013: Legal tech hackathon on trademark technology, Mountain View, California, USA [Twitter hashtag: #TMHacks ].
• February 23, 2013: Open Data Day 2013 Hackathon – DC Metro Area, Washington, DC. [Twitter hashtags: #opendataday #dc]
• April 2013: Law Hack Camp, London.

Thanks to Ed Walters and Roger Skalbeck for suggestions.

[NOTE: Updated 20 January 2013 to correct date of Law Hack Camp London, and to add Legal tech hackathon on trademark technology.]

[NOTE: Updated 27 October 2012 to add Law Hack Camp, London.]

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